• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 11/12/2012

  RE: Any ideas?
  Hi, Thank you to all who responded to my post.  I have used ideas from all answers to solve the problem, including animating the image thanks to integrating all of the ideas you offered. My original green screen image looked like
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 11/6/2012

  RE: Imbed a logo with a title?
  I guess you have one of the latest MEP-versions. Place the image (logo) on the track under the Title, mark it and go to Effects > Movement effects < Size/Position. You now see the logo surrounded by yellow rectangles, reduce the size of
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 11/23/2012

  RE: How can I blur the video as in imitating the unfocus lens effect?
  Hi The only effects applied are:- Video on track 1: Effects, Video Effects, Sharpness, Artistic Blur.  you only need a very small value - in the example it was set to 6 Mask on track 2: Effects, Video Effects, Chroma key, Alpha and
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 11/1/2012

  RE: Ideas for changing the lighting of a party scene?
  Hi Do you mean something like this   this is the original background image   to which I added a flashing party lights video loop - here  is how it was laid out on the timeline   Note the important thing was to set the Video
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 10/27/2012

  RE: size/position
  Hi Michael Here is an image of the timeline which will do what you want with a moving person : The white circle on a black background mask is much larger than the video image to allow for movement,  in this case it was 3840 x 2160 px ie
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 10/24/2012

  RE: Colour Shades
  I'd suggest trying something like: Track 1-- The background video clip Track 2 -- Your standard MEP title, with 'Video Effects' >> 'Chroma key' >> 'Alpha' applied Track 3 -- A jpeg etc of a plain field of green shades using a
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 10/24/2012

  RE: green screen
  They make special screens for this, but they can be expensive. The main thing to remember about Chroma-key is lighting. Everything must be well lit ... (the screen)as well as the subject). When I do Chroma-key sets, I use a minimum of four
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 10/25/2012

  RE: Chroma Key pictures with green and blue - backgrounds reappear every time upon clicking any Video Effect
  Hi I too do not think this is a problem for a different reason:- If you apply any effect or video effect which is likely to upset the chroma key then I would expect the chroma key to be turned off again. For example: If I chroma key a blue
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 10/25/2012

  Chroma Key pictures with green and blue - backgrounds reappear every time upon clicking any Video Effect
  I have been using the Magix Video Programs for many years.  Versions 15, 16, 17, 18, all let you use and blue and green imported JPG or BMP picture files to be adjusted with video effects after clicking chroma keying.  Well, MX 2013 Plus sort of
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 10/19/2012

  RE: Same video objects on two different tracks
  Hi, I am having a little trouble understanding why you thought to use chroma key to create a black and white effect.  Why would you not just have 1 video and use color or color correction to reduce color saturation to zero and you will have
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 10/19/2012

  Same video objects on two different tracks
  Hi I have just put the same 3 minute video on seperate tracks 1 and two. I used the Chroma Key using different settings to get a black and white effect, also title objects on track 3. I then went throuh the rendering process, the red line came
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 10/16/2012

  RE: Chroma Key and Cplour Correction
  Chroma-Key is for setting a color to to transparent from a video clip or still frame image, whereas the Color Correction would allow you to select a color and add a secondary color to it, just as George shows in his video below. Color
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 10/16/2012

  RE: Chroma Key and Cplour Correction
  Hi, The basic answer is Yes there is a difference between Chroma Key and Color Correction, I answered both of your question about chroma key color correction in your previous posts. To had some more information about color correction, it has
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 10/15/2012

  RE: Chroma Key
  Hi, Here is a good definition of Chroma key and how to use it.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key Basically you take one image filmed on blue or green screen background, use chroma key to remove the background and insert that image into
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 10/16/2012

  Chroma Key and Cplour Correction
  Hi What is the difference between Chroma Key and Colour Correction.   Regards Michael Blount
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 10/15/2012

  Chroma Key
  I find this area quite difficult to understand anyone out there know the procedure for using the Chroma Key effect, I would really like to use it in one of my video's. Regards Michael Blount
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 10/10/2012

  MEP 2013: Quirky behaviour - but temporary
  This has preoccupied me for an hour or two but happily has finally righted itself. No idea how or why it happened or went away. So I'll describe the symptoms in case 1. Anyone else observes the same sometime. 2. It's relevant to any other
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 10/5/2012

  RE: How to have subject same size as subject in chromakey background clip
  Hi Oz George and I agree often on a lot of things - in this case you get both sides as George has said. In my opinion you should never adjust the background movie to fit the chroma key clip. In an ideal world you should avoid the problem of
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 10/5/2012

  RE: How to have subject same size as subject in chromakey background clip
  @john and OZ, John you are absolutely correct about setting up size and position, however there is a big difference in how to do it if your chroma key subject is the smaller of the two versus if your main video subject is the smaller of the
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 10/1/2012

  RE: Collage
  Hi Anirban, George Experimenting with MEP achieving the 4 images sliding in as in the original Time ticks video AFAICS is not possible in one single stage. However it can be done in 2 stages. This example quarters the screen for 4 images
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 9/23/2012

  RE: Mask out the back ground
  Hi, That's a bit ambiguous. 1. Do you want to make a movie of a person or other 'object' that appears to show the object (usually called the 'subject' in this context) against another background, such as a desert, ocean, etc? If so search
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 9/15/2012

  RE: Magic Movie Edit Pro MX - Edit Transition Slide
  Hi Does the transition work correctly as I posted previously? Looking at the transition - you need to use the green screen effect (in the computer monitor) to show one image and place an image on the notepad on the desk. To get what you want
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 9/10/2012

  RE: Jumping and Transparent Texts
  Hi Anirban, George No special software required for this one - can all be done in MEP as follows: 1. On a track place your movie 2. On the next track down place the text title, white letters with a very bold font and large font size 3. On
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 9/10/2012

  RE: Jumping and Transparent Texts
  Hi Anirban, I can think of a couple of different ways that this may have been done by using a professional title application, or possibly a good photo application to create a mask that runs on top of the background video.  If you were to use a